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Silverledges, Southport, ME 04576, Stati Uniti
Dorothy
Murdoch Freeman (1898 – August, 1978) was born in Somerville, Massachusetts.
She grew up in the coastal town of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Her mother's
family (Whitney) was one of the first families to settle in Southport (in the
1880's) and Dorothy and her family spent their summers there. From 1916-1919
Dorothy attended the Framingham State Normal School. She taught home economics
in high school until 1921 when she found a job with the Massachusetts
Cooperative Extension Service in Amherst. In 1924 she became a regional
director of 4H. Dorothy married Stanley Freeman in 1924. Stanley Freeman was
studying animal nutrition at the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now
University of Massachusetts) and when he graduated he found a job as an
agricultural agent. Since married women were prohibited from teaching, Dorothy
resigned her job. Stanley Jr., their only child, was born in 1926. Stan Sr.
began working for the Wirthmore Feed Company and rose to become manager of the
service department. Stanley Jr. attended Bates College (Class 1947),
interrupting his study when he joined the Navy. Stanley Jr. married Madeleine
Richard, (Bates Class 1947) in 1948. They had two children-Martha, born in
1953, and Richard, born in 1955.
Rachel Carson first met Dorothy Freeman in
the Summer of 1953 in Southport Island, Maine. Freeman had written to Carson
welcoming her to the area when she had heard that the famous author was to
become her neighbor. It was the beginning of an extremely close friendship
that would last the rest of Carson's life. Their relationship was conducted
mainly through letters, and during summers spent together in Maine. Over the
course of 12 years, they would exchange somewhere in the region of 900
letters. Many of these were published in the book Always, Rachel,
published in 1995 by Beacon Press.
Stanley Freeman Sr. died in January 1964. Rachel Carson died in April 1964.
In 1968, Dorothy married Arthur Rand. In 1970 Arthur Rand died. Dorothy
Murdoch Freeman Rand died in August 1978.
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